Lake Shore
Hosp Authority

Associated Press Features Trouble
With Public Records at the Lake Shore Hospital Authority

Posted March 16, 2015 09:45 am

By Stew Lilker

FLORIDA – March 15 through March 21 is the 10th
anniversary
of
Sunshine Week. Sunshine Week is an annual national
celebration of access to public information and what it
means to your community and you.

The
Associated Press was looking for stories in Florida
which demonstrated the importance of public information
and the issues that one can have accessing public
information.

Reporter Glenn Marston was looking for a good story.
He came across the issues that folks have obtaining
public records from Florida's Lake Shore Hospital
Authority, located in Columbia County.

Florida's First Amendment Foundation president,
Barbara Peterson, referred Mr. Marston to Barbara Lemley
and the issues she was having with obtaining a
background report on Mr. Berry, which was required
during his hiring process and which was on file at the
Authority.